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[600#gorilla]

although i'm sure none of you would have the slightest interest in this sort of thing..............

for the rest of you:

Beginnings…
During a trip to Font in March of 2010 a discussion began around the dinner table regarding quality ratings for boulder problems. I'm sure this discussion has been repeated ad nauseam by many serious boulderers. In fact, ours was repeated ad nauseam around the dinner table every night for way too long. One night you'd be sick of it, and the next you'd find yourself arguing the nuances of what 'obvious start' meant. Eventually we did come up with a purely objective system, but once we began naming some decent, but hardly 5 star problems that fit all the criteria, we knew it wasn't going to work. Well, I knew it wasn't going to work; others had hope. I figured the best system would be based on mass consensus, and being a web developer, began formulating a possible website to capture all the data.



At this point the concept began to fork. On one side sat the quality rating system, but with this became a need to define all the problems to rate. A guidebook site seemed the most logical answer. Like the rating system, I knew it had to be open to mass input; I wasn't going to enter in all that info. Luckily I had a background of dealing with visual data creation on the web and an idea of what developing a topo creator would entail.



While I was churning through the guidebook piece of it, my Font companions began realizing how far you could take the quality rating system. Once a user had rated enough problems, a picture of the style of boulder problem that appealed to them would develop. Using this info the site could begin recommending problems and areas that would appeal to the user.



Back from my trip, I immediately began to throw myself into the project. At the time I still had a job, but as that slowly began to fall apart, I found myself putting more and more time into WikiBoulder. Now I'm working on WikiBoulder full time and want to have it in a stable state by the end of July.



I hope everyone finds this thing useful and any recommendations or comments are much appreciated.



– Sundev
sundev@wikiboulder.com

http://wikiboulder.com

[skav]

Interesting idea. I like juggy limestone roofs, off hands cracks, and thin slab. Please render my ideal problem.

[600#gorilla]

Interesting idea. I like juggy limestone roofs, off hands cracks, and thin slab. Please render my ideal problem.

you just described the mentor 12b at the VRG.

you are a sport climber.

[Lox]

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Let the dabbing begin!

[hweight]

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Let the dabbing begin!

You are obligated to become "Loxcoxsucker." Embrace it or dab.

[malachi]

first ascentionist + date + geographic coordinate

OR NOTHING

implies that a crappy ass low-ball PA boulder problem is as proud a first ascent as a gorgeous highball bullet granite first ascent. sorry... quality matters 10x who "did it" first.

[ScreamingMedic]

id rather be chasing after quality than difficulty

been on laughably bad 4star lines all o ver

had hella fun on 0s